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" The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing 'beloved' individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls. "

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" I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. "

Mira Sorvino

Body

Sing

" Acting is what happens on the way. "

" We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace. "

" Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it's this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It's a primal relationship. "

" I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. "

" It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. "

" We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. "

" Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. "

" I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. "

Mira Sorvino

Assume

Know

" I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. "

" I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. "

" I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar. "

" I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that. "

" I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.' "

" My father taught me how to substitute realities. "

Mira Sorvino

Substitute

Father

" I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. "

" When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. "

" The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on. "

" The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. "

" I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. "

Mira Sorvino

Just

Going

" My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. "

" I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day. "

" I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. "

" We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women. "

" Being is like pretending. "

Mira Sorvino

Pretending

Being

" I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. "

" I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go? "

" I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes. "

" There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment. "

Mira Sorvino

Things

Acting

" I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical. "